03 February 2016 
Karel Thomas, Executive Director
Welcome to Stephen Dauncey, currently Chief Finance Officer for Highways England, who has been appointed as Director of Finance at The University of Manchester. He will join the University on 29 March 2016 for a handover period with Steve Mole who is retiring, before taking up the role on 1 May 2016. Congratulations too to Sue Richardson, currently Deputy Director of Finance at the University of Aberdeen, who is moving to be the Director of Finance at Coventry University. Richard Spilsbury, currently Director of Finance at Birmingham City University, has decided not to replace the batteries in his calculator and is retiring in May after 27 years at BCU (in its various guises). We will miss Richard, who at one time was Treasurer of BUFDG, but he assures me he is coming to the 2016 Conference in Lincoln. Congratulations all round!
